EUGENE, OR - Set in Blowing Rock, North Carolina as the Civil War draws to a close, "The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock" tells the story of the Farthing family. Jacob wants to leave his life behind and find a new life in Tennessee while Laurel holds on to the hope that her Union soldier will return and take her away into the fantasy world he creates with his seductively tall tales. Elsa desperately tries to keep her family together while convincing them that their only hope for survival lies in vengeance. The play provides an insightful look into the lives of those dealing with this devastating event in American history while weaving a tragically romantic story out of passion, forgiveness and the need to believe the lies of those we love.
Show dates are April 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27. Curtain for all shows is 7:30 p.m. except for April 21, which is a matinee beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Ticket prices are $10 general admission and $8 for students and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online at www.lanecc.edu/tickets or at the door.
The cast of Bridegroom includes:
- Elsa Farthing – Sarah Glidden
- Laurel Farthing – Skyler Sepp
- Jacob Farthing – Ben Buchanan
- Maizey Hopewell – Jenna Ross
- Pastor Burns – Tim O'Donnell
- The Bridegroom – Samiu Talakai
Jacob rejects Maizey's marriage proposal; L-R Maizey, Laurel, Bridegroom, Elsa, Jacob
Catherine Trieschmann's "The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock" is the winner of the Weissberger Award. Her works have been produced off-Broadway at the Women's Project Theater, Bush Theatre (London), New Theatre (Sydney), American Theatre Company (Chicago), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and New York International Fringe Festival. She has received commissions from South Coast Repertory and Manhattan Theatre Club. She is featured in The Best New Playwrights of 2009.
Oregon Contemporary Theatre recently produced Trieschmann's "How the World Began." Lane Community College and Student Productions Association is pleased to offer Eugene audiences this rare opportunity to discover the work of a writer who will undoubtedly be influencing the American theatre in the coming years.
The play also is the Eugene directorial debut for Dr. Brian Haimbach, the new Theatre program lead instructor at Lane Community College.
Brian earned a doctorate in theatre with a specialization in directing and new play development from the University of Georgia. Favorite directing credits include "Hamlet," "Marat/Sade," "Top Girls," "The Exonerated," "Amadeus" and "The Rocky Horror Show." As a director and/or producer he has worked on world premier productions and/or readings of plays by Lee Blessing, Arlene Hutton, Caridad Svich, Catherine Trieschmann and Peter Snoad as well as numerous emerging playwrights. Professionally he has spent time with Touchstone Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and the Great Plains Theatre Conference. He is the former head of the national New Play Festival at Centre Stage in Greenville and has taught in the theatre departments of Texas Tech, USC Upstate and the University of Georgia. While head of theatre at Greenville Technical College, he created an associate of arts program in theatre which included study abroad programs to China, Edinburgh and Egypt. He was the first faculty ambassador to Copenhagen Technical School from GTC to begin the creation of a student exchange between the two colleges. He is active in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Recently he appeared in "Next to Normal" at the Oregon Contemporary Theatre in Eugene.
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